• Government policies often provide incentives to market participants to act contrary to the EMH.

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  • The judicial officer who dealt with Burger's case, Alan Hudson, cleared him of the specific charge of eye-gouging as determined by the International Rugby Board, but found him guilty of committing an act contrary to good sportsmanship.

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  • Third, there's no accountability--no House of Lords Select Committee, U.S. Government Accountability Office or parliamentary oversight (recall the Iraq oil-for-food debacle and its cover-up at the UN), and no electorate to kick the UN reprobates out when they act contrary to the public interest.

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  • "There are lots of forbidden acts at the Western Wall: Do not spit on the wall, do not pee on the wall, no slaughtering of animals at the wall, and among those one cannot perform a religious act contrary to local customs at the wall, which pretty much only applies to women because there are no local customs men are forbidden from taking part in, " Hoffman said.

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  • Gill-Webb was found guilty of intending to cause the 100m finalists harassment, alarm or distress by using threatening, abusive or disorderly behaviour, contrary to Section 4 of the Public Order Act as well as an alternative charge contrary to Section 5 of the act.

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  • Ackroyd was due to stand trial charged with taking part in a string of cyber-attacks, but today pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorised act to impair the operation of a computer, contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1977.

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  • To the extent that Congress calls for the president to act in a manner that is contrary to the UN Security Council, as far as Obama is concerned, it is the duty of the president to disregard Congress and obey the Security Council.

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  • Studies by psychologists show systematic biases in how people take decisions they often act in ways that are contrary to traditional economic models of rational self-interest.

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  • It claims they were discriminated against contrary to the Equality Act 2010.

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  • He was later charged with going on to the playing area, contrary to the Football Offences Act.

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  • The six were questioned on suspicion of conspiracy to intercept telephone communications contrary to the Criminal Law Act 1997.

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  • The men - aged between 18 and 36 - are all charged with seizing an aircraft and its passengers contrary to the Aviation Security Act of 1982.

    BBC: Hijack suspects held until March

  • Yes, it is always possible that Kim may doubt that the United States would act, despite all the evidence to the contrary.

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  • Bannister was found guilty of transferring criminal property contrary to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002, after he was hired by Goodger to process payments.

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  • Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain admitted facilitating, planning and encouraging travel overseas contrary to Section 5 of Terrorism Act 2006.

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  • On the contrary, our ability to think and act decisively with the future in mind has diminished.

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  • He wrote: "Not all payments to public officials for information are regarded, in practice, or in law, as contrary to the 1906 Prevention of Corruption Act, especially now that Article 10 of the Human Rights Act requires the public interest of disclosure to be taken into account, " he wrote.

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  • To the contrary, it would be the height of irresponsibility not to take note of, and act upon, them - first by stopping the Ground Zero Mosque, then by ensuring that America remains Shariah-free.

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  • All five have been charged with the murder of an unknown Afghan national contrary to Section 42 of the Armed Forces Act 2006.

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  • Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office, contrary to Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.

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  • They were all charged with publishing material likely lead members of the public to identify the complainant in a rape case, contrary to the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992.

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  • Ten appeared at Prestatyn magistrates on Monday where nine pleaded guilty to publishing material likely lead members of the public to identify the complainant in a rape case, contrary to the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Act 1992.

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  • It "does not provide blanket immunity for the act of hydraulic fracturing, and any assertion to the contrary would be false, " John Stefanko, deputy DEP secretary, wrote to Kasunic and another of the legislation's co-sponsors, Republican Sen.

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  • News Group Newspapers pleaded guilty to one count of "reporting matters in contravention of a reporting restriction" contrary to Section 52A of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998.

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  • We believe that this ruling by the lower court is fundamentally flawed and contrary to the language of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the intent of Congress, and the views of the Supreme Court as expressed in its most recent decisions.

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  • "Our lawyers concluded that in the absence of a statement to the contrary from Congress, the Fair Labor Standards Act would apply, " domestic policy advisor Bruce Reed told The Associated Press.

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  • Alison Levitt QC, principal legal advisor to the director of public prosecutions, said in a statement that Mr Webster was charged with "two offences of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office, contrary to section 1(1) of the Criminal Law Act 1977".

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  • The US Department of Justice has taken the position that the Federal Wire Act prohibits all forms of online gambling (despite court rulings to the contrary) and has obsessively worked to indict, arrest, and impede both online gaming sites and US players.

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  • Contrary to the Americans who, in spite of blunt evidence, still worship the act of marriage, with its fairy-tale rituals of proposing and funny kneeling, the French have a much more pessimistic, more realistic even, vision of the knot.

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  • In the aftermath of the murderous attack on our diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, she joined Mr. Obama and others in insisting - despite abundant evidence to the contrary - that it had been precipitated by a "disgusting and reprehensible" act of free expression, namely, a video denigrating Muhammad produced by a California man.

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